After extensive research, the Air Force concluded that airplanes fly better with everyone INSIDE the plane.
"Cool Hand Luke" one of the best movies ever. This is where he has cut off the heads of parking meters and the reason he was on the chain gang.
Jim Hurtubise was always hands-on with his race cars. Here he's focused on his famed, Chevy-powered #56 sprint car, at Allentown, PA. A lot of detail in this busy pit area shot from the 1960s. Herk built this car himself, with input from Jud Phillips about the tube shocks. One of the first on a sprint car. The nose and tail were from Hillegass, Herk did the flat panels. Leroy Nuemayer and Don Shepherd often helped him with the car. At the end of 1960 season, Shepherd went to Ascot with Herk, and Herk set a new track record and won the feature. This was the first USAC race ever ran at Ascot.
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